Sphingonotus asper -

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Sphingonotus asper (Brullé, 1840) Fig. 3 Type material. • 1 ♀, TYPE, Museum Paris, Canaries, Webb et Berthelot, 3-41, asperum Br. Due to great interest in the genus on the islands, additional species had been recorded and described in the past, but have been either found to be synonymous (S. freyi Uvarov, 1948, Acridium asperum Brullé, 1840), or based on misidentification (S. (Neosphingonotus) paradoxus, S. (Neosphingonotus) canariensis, S. (Sphingonotus) picteti). The status of most other species has been confirmed in previous studies (e. g., Hochkirch and Husemann 2008), but the location of the type of S. (Neosphingonotus) asper remained unknown. The type was rediscovered in the MNHN (Fig. 3). The type location is not defined for the species and only given as “ Canaries ”. Based on the morphology, we establish S. (Neosphingonotus) asper to be synonymous with S. (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi (Fig. 4). As no type location is known from S. (Neosphingonotus) asper and the Canarian endemics are usually only found on a single island, we synonymize the two and consider S. (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi as the valid name. As S. (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi has been shown to have cross veins typical for the subgenus Neosphingonotus (see Hochkirch and Husemann 2008), it is assigned to this subgenus. Thus, we propose the following synonymy: Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) asper (Brullé, 1840) = Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi (Bolívar, 1908). The above made changes together with distribution data derived from the literature leads to the current distributions of the taxa found on Macaronesia islands.

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